Samuel Adams — Revolutionary Organizer, Sons of Liberty

**Samuel Adams** was the master organizer of the American Revolution — the man who turned scattered colonial grievances into a coordinated independence movement before most colonists had even considered the idea. Born in 1722 in Boston, he was a complete failure at business (his father's brewery, a tax collector position, various commercial ventures — all disasters) but a genius at political organizing. While his cousin John argued in courtrooms and Jefferson wrote in studies, Samuel Adams worked the streets, taverns, meeting halls, and correspondence networks of colonial America, building the infrastructure of revolution from the ground up.